• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I dunno, it’d probably be better but there’s nothing stopping people from using metric in places where it makes sense. I write most of my recipes in grams because it makes them easier to multiply or divide.

    At the same time, the most common thing people use units for is a point of reference, and it really makes no difference whether your point of reference is metric or traditional units.

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          5 months ago

          That’s fine right up to when you’re complaining about the temperature to an american.

          But I am an American. To learn Celsius I came up with a quick heuristic to do “accurate enough” conversions for the months between switching off Fahrenheit and getting to the point where I knew Celsius well enough.

          So I can pretty quickly go from Celsius to Fahrenheit for my ignorant compatriots.